Paola Antonelli is the curator of the design and architecture department at MOMA, and she has done some great exhibitions there. I really think she is spot on in her observations and visions, as well as being a very inspiring person and a great speaker. The first video from TED.com is a preview she presented of an exhibition on MOMA I have been so lucky to have seen myself, the Design and the Elastic Mind-exhibition from 2008. The second video is also from TED.com, where she talks about her passion of design and objects and how she feels it is going to change the world.
"I always envisioned them (designers) to become the intellectuals of the future. I find it really funny, you know, that the french, whenever they discuss the price of gas og the cheese-war with Italy, they always turn to a philosopher. The philosophers are the cultural generators in France. I want designers to be the cultural generators pretty much all over the world, and some of them really can. And no matter what, they should become fundamental bricks in whatever kind of policy making effort, and that is more and more what is happening. But I see designers designing not any more objects, or in some cases yes, but also scenarios that are based on objects that will help people understand the consequences of their choices."
Paola Antonelli in Objectified (2009)
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